They don’t make speeches like that any more

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Unlike much of today’s rhetoric, Martin Luther King’s words made a difference — and their music is unmatched

Two score years and ten after Martin Luther King dreamt out loud, on the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, that every valley be exalted and that
there could be no rest until justice rolled down like water, why does this
speech still matter and why does nobody speak like this any longer? The
answer to both questions is the same and it is visible in the man who on
Wednesday paid tribute to King: Barack Obama.

The peculiar genesis of the speech which we know now as I Have a Dream
explains why it could not be given